HLST 2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pharmaceutical Industry, Structural Violence, Genetic Predisposition
26 Jan 2018
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Session 3: theories of health and public policy in the post-modern world. The biomedical model for health psychology: method used by medical professionals to treat patients psychologically by changing the patients" beliefs into overcoming the illness and thinking that they are better: heavily reliant on patient mentality. The social model: analyzing the social aspects of health learning how social phenomenon and lifestyle can impact a patient"s health (ex. Economy and environment: much like the social determinants of health theory. The social gradient of health theory: the correlation between income and health status the generalization is that the more income one makes the better their health is likely to be [because they can. Another challenge with this theory is that policy makers are often making decisions for poor people when they, themselves are nowhere near poor. Poor neighbourhoods = lack of health education, lack of sanitation, lack of opportunity, etc. )
